About ExportLawBlog


ExportLawBlog is written and maintained by Clif Burns, Illya Antonenko and Megan Gajewski.

Clif Burns, Editor-in-Chief


Mr. Burns is a lawyer at Bryan Cave in Washington, DC, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

He focuses his practice on international business transactions, export controls, economic sanctions, customs and international intellectual property matters.

Mr. Burns's export control work encompasses a broad range of areas and includes matters involving the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) administered by the Department of Commerce, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) administered by the State Department and the country-based economic sanctions program administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department. Mr. Burns also has broad experience in developing compliance programs for each of these three regulatory schemes, conducting due diligence for compliance with these schemes, and submitting voluntary disclosures of prior unlicensed exports. Customs matters have included registration and enforcement of intellectual property rights with the Customs Service and release of seized merchandise.

Companies represented by Mr. Burns are located in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and the United States. Mr. Burns speaks French fluently.

Illya Antonenko, Associate Editor


Illya Antonenko, is also a lawyer at Bryan Cave's DC office, and focuses his practice in international anti-corruption, trade and corporate matters. Mr. Antonenko advises multinational companies with respect to compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and international requirements such as the OECD anti-corruption convention. In addition to FCPA work, Mr. Antonenko has experience in general corporate and international trade areas. Mr. Antonenko has assisted governments of foreign countries in formulating their policy regarding the Central American Free Trade Agreement and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, prepared financing documents in international project finance deals, worked on federal and state regulatory filings in connection with the restructuring of a large multinational bank, represented clients before U.S. Customs Service and prepared general corporate documents for business clients.